Fan Showa Timelines (creative)

[MaxRebo320]

Hey guys, I have spent a while trying to come up with a chronological order for all of the Showa Kaiju films, and have finally done it! Remember, this not Toho's official list, just a fan's!

* 1954 - ''Godzilla''
* 1955 - ''Godzilla Raids Again''
* 1956 - ''Rodan''
* 1957 - ''The Mysterians''
* 1958 - ''Varan''
* 1961 - ''Mothra''
* 1962 - ''Frankenstein Conquers the World'' , ''King Kong vs. Godzilla''
* 1963 - ''Ataragon''
* 1964 - "Mothra vs. Godzilla'' , ''Dogora''
* 1965: ''Ghidorah: The 3 Headed Monster'', ''Battle in Outer Space''
* 1966: ''Invasion of Astro-Monster'' , ''Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster''
* 1967: ''War of the Gargantuas'' , ''King Kong Escapes''
* 1968: ''Son of Godzilla''
* 1969: ''Latitude Zero''
* 1970: ''Yog: The Monster From Space''
* 1971: ''Godzilla vs. Hedorah''
* 1972: ''Godzilla vs. Gigan''
* 1973: ''Godzilla vs. Megalon''
* 1974: ''Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla''
* 1975: ''Terror of Mechagodzilla''
* 1982: ''Gorath''
* 1988: ''War in Space''
* 1999: ''Destroy All Monsters''

[Legion1979]

Uhhhh huuuuh....

[Megalon-5]

Hey Max, sorry to rain on your parade, but Minya was born by Godzilla vs. Gigan. He was shown as one of the inhabitants of the island.

[Tamura]

1. Movies like BIOS, FRANKIE and KKE are Showa era films, but they don't fall into the continuity of the Godzilla series.

2. GORATH takes place (mostly) in 1980.

3. While MONSTER ZERO takes place in 196X, meaning it could have happened any year of that decade, I assume the creators envisioned a date later than 1965 because of the futuristic aspects.

4. The events of GODZILLA VS. MEGALON were in 1971 (according to the international English dub).

5. ATTACK OF THE GALACTIC MONSTERS isn't a Toho film.

[Megalon-5]

Tamura, wasn't Attack Of The Galactic Monsters a hoax anyways along with Monster King Godzilla? I swear it was revealed as a hoax sometime ago. I could be wrong though.

[Tamura]

Oops, you're right. I was thinking of the anime & tokusatsu mashup film, ATTACK OF THE SUPERMONSTERS.

[CTHimes]

(Forgive me, Nick, I'm posting again...)

Good work on compiling all this, I guess, but there are some errors.

GHIDRAH takes place in January, though the year is not given. We can assume it's 1965. Image: http://i.imgur.com/iwRAq.png

FCTW takes place partially in 1945, and then in 1960 (this is when Dr. Bowen is introduced. Young Frankie is hit by the cab driver in this year). Then the movie jumps to a later date. Sueko says, "This is the anniversary of [Tazuko Towoi's] death." She doesn't mention how many years it's been, but since we see the Frankenstein child again shortly afterwards (and he hasn't aged much since the cab incident), it makes most sense to say a year has passed. In fact, it might be a little over a year, since Towoi is still alive, albeit very ill, in the 1960 scenes. Images: http://i.imgur.com/DgRVD.png http://i.imgur.com/zauRG.png

In addition, GORATH can't take place in the same continuity as the Godzilla series. At the end of GORATH, the moon is obliterated by Gorath, while in DAM, whole scenes take place on the moon.

ATRAGON can't take place in the same continuity either, as evidenced by this exchange in GODZILLA VS. MEGALON (using the dub, although the Japanese dialogue is pretty much the same):

Goro: "We'll vanish, like Mu and Lemuria."
Roku: "What's that? Where's those places? I've never heard of them before."
Goru: "I'll tell ya. They were continents that existed a long time ago. One in the Pacific, one in the Indian Ocean. Then one day there was a big earthquake and they both vanished. Mind you -I must say- the majority of the historians believe they only existed in legend."

[Kaiju-King42]

In addition, GORATH can't take place in the same continuity as the Godzilla series. At the end of GORATH, the moon is obliterated by Gorath, while in DAM, whole scenes take place on the moon.

Eh, You could probably fit it in if you made it take place AFTER DAM, and War in Space after that.

[Hellspawn28]

Let's stick with the official timelines thank very much.

[Megalon-5]

I still think the best suggestion is that Toho didn't give a damn at the time.

Also, didn't one Japanese book state that the non-Godzilla Toho kaiju films were part of the Godzilla canon? I could've sworn something did (I might be thinking of the Kiryu film books, so clarification would be really nice).

[GotengoXGodzilla]

Unless the film makes a specific mention as to what year it is taking place in (like Destroy All Monsters), we have to assume that the film takes place in the same year the film was made. Son Of Godzilla never said what year it was, so we have to assume that it takes place in 1967.

[JVM]

He said it's his timeline and there's nothing wrong with a little fanon, as long as it's probably labelled as such, IMO

[Godzilla 2000]

Who the skreeonk cares about continuity anymore.

[kpa]

* 1978: ''Attack of the Galactic Monsters'' (Look it up)'

Like others have mentioned here, ''Attack of the Galactic Monsters'' isn't a real movie... some fan just edited together scenes from ZONE FIGHTER and WAR IN SPACE.

[Living Corpse]

In addition, GORATH can't take place in the same continuity as the Godzilla series. At the end of GORATH, the moon is obliterated by Gorath, while in DAM, whole scenes take place on the moon.

The fact that Maguma was one of the monsters originally planed to be in DAM kinda makes this funny in hindsight.

[MaxRebo320]

Thanks to everybody correcting some of my mistakes. I will add more detail as time progresses. I made some errors mainly because I have never seen ''Gorath'', ''Ataragon'', and a few other obscure-er flicks.

[Ethan]

Some US versions take place in their own separate continuities. King Kong vs. Godzilla, for instance.

[CTHimes]

Eh, You could probably fit it in if you made it take place AFTER DAM, and War in Space after that.

Well, the problem with that is that GORATH takes place in 1980-1982 (stated in the film), while WAR IN SPACE takes place in Autumn 1988 (also stated in the film). DAM, of course, takes place at the end of the 20th Century (stated in the Japanese version; both dubs put the film in 1999). You could argue that "end of the 20th century" could be anywhere from 1980-2000, but that's really stretching it, I think.

Besides, GORATH isn't even important to the Showa Godzilla timeline. Neither is WAR IN SPACE. And as fun as it is to guess how all these movies fit together, the fact is that many of them simply don't.

[Hellspawn28]

4. The events of GODZILLA VS. MEGALON were in 1971 (according to the international English dub).

Dubs are never close to the Japanese scripts. I think we should stick what the sub titles say when it comes to information.

[Legion1979]

Since many non-Godzilla Toho films act like the existence of monsters is a huge surprise it's impossible to force them into the Godzilla continuity. Gorosaurus was in King Kong Escapes but he was also in Destroy All Monsters. Does this mean that KKE can fit into the Godzilla canon?

No. Because in KKE they treat Kong as if he's just a legend, when we already had a different (and bigger) Kong in King Kong vs Godzilla.

Just one example.